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Hokage: I Confronted the Five Kage Before the System Arrived

Hokage: I Confronted the Five Kage Before the System Arrived
Author: Cambrian Light
Translator: Craxx
Hagoromo Gengetsu traveled to the Naruto world and became a significant figure in the shinobi world through his own efforts. However, one day, the newly appointed Five Kage joined forces and launched a surprise attack on him, abandoning all ethics. It was only then that a system finally appeared, claiming it could help him become the strongest in the shinobi world.
But...
Just as Hagoromo Gengetsu was about to confront the Five Kage, he looked at the system's first mission in silence.
[Shinobi School Counterattack Activated! Defeat your dead-last classmate, Uzumaki Naruto.]
"System, do you even know what year it is?"
[Konoha Year 60]
"It's Konoha Year 2 right now! What's wrong with this system?!"
...
Years later, Hagoromo Gengetsu opened his eyes again, standing on the rooftop during the Chunin Exams. He looked at the Third Hokage, who was on high alert in front of him, and a slight smile appeared on his lips:
"Though it's a few decades early, I made it just in time."
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- Chapter 1: I’ve Faced All Five Kage, and Now the System Shows Up?
- Chapter 101: The Five Kage Summit
- Chapter 104: Information from Hanare
- Chapter 107: Unfinished Business?
- Chapter 11: Fire God vs. Wooden Giant
- Chapter 112: Fighting Four Alone
- Chapter 115: The God of the Shinobi’s Unfortunate Fate
- Chapter 118: Mangeky? Sharingan, Experimental Subject
- Chapter 120: The Sennin Talent
- Chapter 123: S-Class Mission: Bring Back Uchiha Sasuke
- Chapter 126: Hotaru
- Chapter 129: Who Is Truly Arrogant?
- Chapter 131: Not Even Showing Your Blue Steam
- Chapter 134: Kakashi, Whose Life is Filled with Failures
- Chapter 137: Konoha’s S-Rank Rogue Ninja: Uchiha Sasuke
- Chapter 14: Chunin Exams, Reanimation Jutsu
- Chapter 142: The Feast of Illusions
- Chapter 145: I Heard You Were Looking for Me?
- Chapter 148: Acquiring the Mangeky? Sharingan
- Chapter 150: Akatsuki’s Invitation and Black Zetsu’s Net
- Chapter 153: Naruto, Strive to Grow
- Chapter 156: The Girl Who Once Only Knew How to Cry Has Grown Up
- Chapter 159: Sister Izumi, Should I Also Call You “Lady”?
- Chapter 161: Bitter Suffering for the People? That’s Normal
- Chapter 164: Unlearnable
- Chapter 167: Madness and Calm, Candidness and Cunning
- Chapter 17: Sealing Technique: Reaper Death Seal
- Chapter 172: Becoming an Undercover Agent
- Chapter 175: If That’s the Case, Let Me Start a New Era
- Chapter 178: Returning to the Uchiha Clan Grounds
- Chapter 180: How Can You Lose With a Flying Dragon?
- Chapter 183: Hokage-sama, There’s Big Trouble
- Chapter 186: Women Should Be Gentler
- Chapter 189: Despair-Inducing Gap
- Chapter 191: Do We Fight? The Kind that Reduces Everything to Ruin
- Chapter 194: The Uchiha Clan Welcomed by the Villagers
- Chapter 197: The Heir of the Will of Fire. Heh
- Chapter 2: Step One of the Counterattack System: Defeat Naruto Uzumaki???
- Chapter 201: Target Akatsuki!
- Chapter 204: Didn’t the Six-Tails Inside You Tell You Not to Court Death?
- Chapter 207: “Seems You Don’t Know Anything”
- Chapter 21: Escape
- Chapter 212: The World is Too Noisy, It Needs to Quiet Down
- Chapter 215: Malicious Amusement
- Chapter 218: Leader? Boss?
- Chapter 220: Taking Over the Akatsuki
- Chapter 223: Where Is My Akatsuki Organization?
- Chapter 226: Strengthening the Clone; The Trail of the Three-Tails
- Chapter 229: The Three Parties Converge
- Chapter 231: The Reason Kakashi is Single
- Chapter 234: Meeting Senju Hashirama Again, Hagoromo Gengetsu Feels Bored
- Chapter 237: Here it Comes!
- Chapter 24: The Valley of the Fallen God
- Chapter 242: Operation Begins!!
- Chapter 245: What Kind of Environment Do Toads Prefer?
- Chapter 248: Surprises and Arrivals
- Chapter 250: Opportunity Not Taken
- Chapter 253: The Great Toad Sage; Hagoromo’s Descendant
- Chapter 256: Unbelievably High Magic Resistance
- Chapter 259: Hagoromo Gengetsu Enters His Peak State
- Chapter 261: Unveiling the Hidden Dagger
- Chapter 264: The Jutsu Interrupted
- Chapter 267: Only the Path of Obito Remains
- Chapter 27: Searching for Tsunade
- Chapter 272: A Father-Son Reunion in Death?
- Chapter 275: The Awakening of Minato Namikaze
- Chapter 278: The Return of the Former Hokage and the Reunion of the Sannin
- Chapter 280: The Divine Tree’s Ruins
- Chapter 29: Why Are You Here?
- Chapter 31: Tsunade’s Hesitation
- Chapter 34: Time’s Up
- Chapter 37: The Power of the Fist Always Outweighs Morality
- Chapter 4: Bulk Bloodline Limits
- Chapter 42: The Descendants of Hagoromo
- Chapter 45: Grand Entrance
- Chapter 48: The Limits of Dark Release
- Chapter 50: The Path Ahead
- Chapter 53: Movements in Akatsuki
- Chapter 56: Sasuke: Naruto, Who Was That Just Now?!!
- Chapter 59: The Clan Leader Asked About My Free Time, Could It Be…
- Chapter 61: Betrayal and Choice
- Chapter 64: Itachi, Kimimaro
- Chapter 67: Sharingan, Shikotsumyaku
- Chapter 7: One Dead, One Crippled
- Chapter 72: The Prettier the Woman, the Less You Should Trust Her Words
- Chapter 75: Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzo Notice the Host!
- Chapter 78: I’m Back, and I Will Conquer the Five Great Nations!
- Chapter 80: The Name of the Second Emperor Cannot Be Defiled
- Chapter 83: A-Class Research Lab
- Chapter 86: Self Announcement
- Chapter 89: The Broken Calm
- Chapter 91: Killing Spree
- Chapter 94: Everything of Yours Belongs to Me!
- Chapter 97: Kill the Enemy, Loot the Base, and Explode the Gear
- Chapter 10: The Powerful Senju Hashirama
- Chapter 102: Everyone Has Their Own Plans
- Chapter 105: Developing Forbidden Techniques
- Chapter 108: Reaper Death Seal: Release and Sever
- Chapter 110: Separated by Life and Death, Hashirama, Hurry Back to Where You Belong
- Chapter 113: Thanks to Minato Namikaze
- Chapter 116: Daily Life in the Lockfront Village
- Chapter 119: Madara Doesn’t Work, and Neither Does Izuna
- Chapter 121: Another Uchiha?
- Chapter 124: Mangeky? Sharingan?
- Chapter 127: Hotaru: Is it done, sir?
- Chapter 13: Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands: Top Transformed Buddha
- Chapter 132: Meow~~Thank you for your patronage, that’ll be 200,000 ryo
- Chapter 135: As Impressive as You Are, Can You Make Sasuke Call You “Master”?
- Chapter 138: Itachi’s Actions
- Chapter 140: Truth-Seeking Ball: Yin-Yang and Five Elements
- Chapter 143: The Mangeky? Sharingan That Doesn’t Belong to You, I’ll Take It Back
- Chapter 146: Is This All You’ve Got?
- Chapter 149: Hagoromo Gengetsu Reunites with “Uchiha Madara”
- Chapter 151: Completion of Sage Mode
- Chapter 154: Long Time No See, Naruto, Sakura
- Chapter 157: Sharingan?! Who Are You?
- Chapter 16: The Return of Dark Release
- Chapter 162: A “Chicken” Too Shocking to Warn the Monkeys
- Chapter 165: Deidara’s Impulsive Action
- Chapter 168: Caught in the Trap
- Chapter 170: First, Give the Brat a Good Beating
- Chapter 173: The Great Artist Hagoromo Gengetsu
- Chapter 176: It’s Time to Avenge the Uchiha Clan
- Chapter 179: Hagoromo Gengetsu: Infinite Tsukuyomi is Quite Interesting
- Chapter 181: Brothers Reunited, the Uchiha Civil War
- Chapter 184: Is Hagoromo Gengetsu Among Them?
- Chapter 187: Don’t Break the Big Medicine
- Chapter 19: Watching the Show
- Chapter 192: The Uchiha Clan Still Lives
- Chapter 195: Uchiha Leave the Village, Villagers’ Reactions
- Chapter 198: The Sharingan is a Must!
- Chapter 20: The End
- Chapter 202: Sorry, I’m a Spy~~~
- Chapter 205: Small Fish Don’t Deserve the Hook
- Chapter 208: Swift and Decisive
- Chapter 210: The World of Perception Suddenly Becomes Strange
- Chapter 213: Acquiring the Rinnegan
- Chapter 216: Even More Impressive Than Itachi
- Chapter 219: Are You Worthy of Your Boss?
- Chapter 221: Extracting the Tailed Beast
- Chapter 224: Preach to Me
- Chapter 227: Orochimaru’s Cause of Death: Possessing Lethal Skills
- Chapter 23: Rising Clouds in All Directions
- Chapter 232: Don’t Trust What Pretty Women Say
- Chapter 235: Supremacy of Bloodlines
- Chapter 238: When Did Things Start Going Wrong for Konoha?
- Chapter 240: Naruto’s Stay is Non-Negotiable!
- Chapter 243: Target, Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, Uzumaki Naruto!
- Chapter 246: Now Is Not the Time to Witness the Full Power of the Eight Gates
- Chapter 249: The Battle of Mount Myoboku
- Chapter 251: Super Shinra Tensei!
- Chapter 254: Because You Didn’t Show Up, Naruto
- Chapter 257: I Have Surpassed My Ancestor
- Chapter 26: The Name “Kato” Holds a Special Place in My Memory
- Chapter 262: To Hell with Hagoromo Gengetsu!
- Chapter 265: The Death of Naruto
- Chapter 268: Extortion
- Chapter 270: Mount My?boku is Gone; Naruto is Gone
- Chapter 273: Too Bold!
- Chapter 276: The Gathering of the Five Hokage
- Chapter 279: News of Naruto’s Death
- Chapter 281: A Strange World, The Show Begins
- Chapter 3: The Battle of the Kage
- Chapter 32: The Inevitable Outcome
- Chapter 35: Hagoromo Gengetsu and Naruto’s First Meeting
- Chapter 38: Free Rasengan Lesson
- Chapter 40: The Familiar Scent of Hokage
- Chapter 43: A Grand Entrance Needs an Audience
- Chapter 46: Flowers and Applause
- Chapter 49: It’s Not Me Who Should Tremble, But the Whole World!
- Chapter 51: The Ninja World Shaken
- Chapter 54: A New Mission
- Chapter 57: Sasuke: Please Teach Me, Lord
- Chapter 6: Can’t You Start Researching From the Womb?
- Chapter 62: The Action of Akatsuki
- Chapter 65: Fierce Battle
- Chapter 68: Kindred Spirits
- Chapter 70: Dominating the Ninja Academy!
- Chapter 73: Welcome Home – The Sharingan Feast
- Chapter 76: A Good Student Can Learn with Just One Look
- Chapter 79: Please Don’t Diminish the Concept of Revival
- Chapter 81: The Handsome Guy at Konoha Hospital
- Chapter 84: Thoroughly Resolving Physical Issues
- Chapter 87: Apologies, Clan Leader
- Chapter 9: Wood Release: The Advent of the Tree World
- Chapter 92: Danzo: Who Are You?
- Chapter 95: I Have Not Lost Yet!!!
- Chapter 98: The System is No Longer That Trashy System
- Chapter 100: Success
- Chapter 103: This Woman Is a Lost Cause!
- Chapter 106: Reunion with Orochimaru
- Chapter 109: The First, Second, Third, and Fourth Hokage Appear
- Chapter 111: The Present Me is No Longer the Past Me
- Chapter 114: Barrier Technique: Four-Polar Forbidden Array
- Chapter 117: Recognizing the Times
- Chapter 12: Bloodline Selection
- Chapter 122: Become the Uchiha Clan of the Land of Fire!
- Chapter 125: A Gift from Danz?
- Chapter 128: Too Bad Naruto and Sakura Aren’t Here
- Chapter 130: The Tropes of Naruto Fanfiction from Ten Years Ago
- Chapter 133: Eight Gates Release and Genjutsu
- Chapter 136: The Hagoromo Clan’s Escape Route
- Chapter 139: It Is Our Lifetime’s Good Fortune to Follow Lord Hagoromo
- Chapter 141: The Gathering of Two Pairs of Mangeky? Sharingan
- Chapter 144: Once an Illusion is Discovered, Its Value Plummets
- Chapter 147: Struggling in Vain
- Chapter 15: A Reunion of Old Friends
- Chapter 152: Lockfront Village Exposed, Naruto Arrives
- Chapter 155: The Bloodline Talent of the Hagoromo Clan
- Chapter 158: The Nine-Tails: The Innate Evil of the Uchiha!
- Chapter 160: It’s Been a Long Time Since I’ve Slain a Daimyo
- Chapter 163: Sasuke: I Kinda Miss My Mom
- Chapter 166: Deidara is One of Us?
- Chapter 169: Unexpected Visitor
- Chapter 171: Don’t Want to Deviate from the Norm
- Chapter 174: Bloodline Encompassing Issue
- Chapter 177: Delivery, Departure
- Chapter 18: This Era Belongs to Me
- Chapter 182: He Has Weakened!
- Chapter 185: Involving the Innocent
- Chapter 188: The Ten Laughing Uchiha
- Chapter 190: Mangeky? Sharingan, Activate! Activate! Activate!
- Chapter 193: Has the Uchiha Clan Returned?
- Chapter 196: The Time Has Come for the Truth
- Chapter 199: The Power of Hagoromo and Uchiha Rivals Senju and Uchiha
- Chapter 200: Hagoromo Gengetsu’s Mortal Perspective?
- Chapter 203: The Pitiful Stench
- Chapter 206: What is the Infinite Tsukuyomi, the Eye of the Moon Plan?
- Chapter 209: It’s Time to End This
- Chapter 211: The Ridiculous Truth Behind the Rinnegan
- Chapter 214: A New Breeze in the Akatsuki
- Chapter 217: Their Respective Mangeky? Sharingan Techniques
- Chapter 22: Rising Tide
- Chapter 222: The Tailed Beast Capture Plan Continues
- Chapter 225: Evil God, Captured
- Chapter 228: Patience in Snake Hunting
- Chapter 230: Run!!
- Chapter 233: Why Should I Care If I Kill You?
- Chapter 236: Soul Extraction
- Chapter 239: The Great Lord Feels Off
- Chapter 241: The Exposure of Lockfront Village
- Chapter 244: Do You Want Konoha to Be Destroyed?
- Chapter 247: Kakashi, You
- Chapter 25: The Dilemma of Resurrection
- Chapter 252: Myoboku Mountain… It’s Over!
- Chapter 255: The Pinnacle Battle
- Chapter 258: Truth-Seeking Ball!!
- Chapter 260: A Cold Forehead
- Chapter 263: Had Enough?
- Chapter 266: She Will Return
- Chapter 269: Anxious Waiting in Konoha
- Chapter 271: The Power of the Present is Insufficient, We Can Only Rely on the Past
- Chapter 274: Long Time No See, Jiraiya
- Chapter 277: Fear
- Chapter 28: Tsunade and Orochimaru
- Chapter 282: A Child’s Inquiry—Why Are You Late?
- Chapter 30: Will You Forcefully Take It if I Refuse?
- Chapter 33: Root
- Chapter 36: The Beginner’s Mission That Took Decades to Complete
- Chapter 39: Learn Well and Watch Closely
- Chapter 41: The Acquisition of the Spirit Transformation Technique
- Chapter 44: Resurrection! Resurrection!
- Chapter 47: This is the Feeling I Want!
- Chapter 5: The Four Kage’s Ultimate Techniques
- Chapter 52: Madara-sama! Your Good Friend Has Revived!
- Chapter 55: Unexpected Encounter with Team 7
- Chapter 58: Reunion with Samui
- Chapter 60: Taking a Nap?
- Chapter 63: Medical Forbidden Jutsu
- Chapter 66: Kisame: Guess Who I See?
- Chapter 69: I Will Definitely Take You Back from Hagoromo Gengetsu!
- Chapter 71: An Unexpected Acquaintance
- Chapter 74: I Will Kill Uchiha Itachi! I Swear!
- Chapter 77: The Founder, Not Weaker Than Hagoromo Gengetsu
- Chapter 8: Senju Hashirama Appears!
- Chapter 82: Chakra Precision Control Talent
- Chapter 85: Betrayal?
- Chapter 88: What Kind of Person is Hagoromo Gengetsu
- Chapter 90: The Root and Self-Immolation
- Chapter 93: What If the Fish You Caught Is Too Big?
- Chapter 96: Good Idea, but Useless
- Chapter 99: The Last Gift